As Sodom and Gomorrah
scourged
by fire, 10
As Jericho before God's trumpet-peal,
So we the elect ones perish in His ire.
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In October, 1941, Lend-Lease aid was
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' He spoke, and stood right opposite in face of the
bullock as it stood by, the prize of battle; then drew back his hand,
and swinging the hard
gauntlet
sheer down between the horns, smashed the
bones in upon the shattered brain.
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She began to feel that she had not yet
gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment which the progress
of time and variation of circumstances
occasion
in this world of
changes.
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redistributing or providing access to a work with the phrase "Project
Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the work, you must comply
either with the requirements of
paragraphs
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Coherence
within the overall system seems to be part of the reason why one is chosen and not another.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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Eine blaue
Wolke
Ist dein Antlitz auf mich
gesunken
in der Da?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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she did die;
for sweet
consolation
to church I did fly;
I found that old Solomon proved it fair,
That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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After
dislodging
the forces who were posted there, he showed himself to the enemy below.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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It has also been used for Bhutan, and the king of
Bhaktapur
and Patan is referred to in the chapter heading as the king of Mon.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Psammetichus
defeated Tementhes in a battle near the temple of Isis, which is about five stades away from the palace.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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But that which Valerius Maximus hath left
recorded of Euripides, the tragic poet, his answer to Alcestis, another
poet, is as memorable as modest; who, when it was told to Alcestis that
Euripides had in three days brought forth but three verses, and those
with some difficulty and throes, Alcestis,
glorying
he could with ease
have sent forth a hundred in the space, Euripides roundly replied, "Like
enough; but here is the difference: thy verses will not last these three
days, mine will to all time.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But in the end how many words
Winged on a flight she could not follow,
Farther than skyward lark or swallow,
His lips should free to lands she never knew;
Braver than white sea-faring birds
With a
fearless
melody,
Flying over a shining sea,
A star-white song between the blue and blue.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Might he not far more
truly have said with the murderous king in the
splendid
tragedy:
"Can all old Ocean's waters wash this blood
Clean from my hand?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v06 to v10 - Cal to Fro |
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There are a lot of things you can do with Project
Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement
and help
preserve
free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
works.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He, rejoicing in the
magnificence of the goddess' gift, cannot have his fill of turning his
eyes over it piece by piece, and admires and handles between his arms
the helmet, dread with plumes and spouting flame, as when a blue cloud
takes fire in the
sunbeams
and gleams afar; then the smooth greaves of
electrum and refined gold, the spear, and the shield's ineffable design.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"Ribbons," he said, "should be
considered
as clothes, which are the
mark of a human being.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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The four wind-energies are explained by S
hrilhara
as the minor
elements.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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First, they are perceived or encountered in the soul through hearing, just as the voices of the Marsi and the Psylli became such
powerful
voices when they were present in the ser- pent.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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work will be cited
parenthetical
230
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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'°' The
Scholiast
on the copy of the Fci-
lirc of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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This crushing of
self, this mockery of one's own nature, this spernere se sperni out of
which
religions
have made so much is in reality but a very high
development of vanity.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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A foreign enemy has entered, or a strong
domestic
one has arisen in the
nation.
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Edmund Burke |
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at each moment the vessel
Hastens, as onward it glides,
cleaving
the foam-covered flood!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v11 - Fro to Gre |
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Viazemski
of
course is the poet and prince, Pushkin's friend.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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- The Use of the Roman Character for Oriental Society have issued
invitations
to social
functions to be held on July 16th and two
British Museum.
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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The senate was angry with Fimbria for this; but it disguised its anger, and
arranged
for him to be elected consul.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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In his third volume Jones ( 1957) gives half a chapter to Freud's life-long adherence to
Lamarckian
explanations of the process of evolution, starting with the postulated heritability of acquired characters and progressing to a belief in the powers of a postulated 'inner feeling of need'.
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Bowlby - Separation |
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The sun set, but set not his hope:--
Stars rose, his faith was earlier up:
Fixed on the
enormous
galaxy,
Deeper and older seemed his eye,
And matched his sufferance sublime
The taciturnity of Time.
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Emerson - Poems |
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, The Old Regime and the French
Revolution
(Chicago, 1987), 47-50, quote from 49.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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The answer must be not only that
bourgeois
thought is relevant to the Marxist approach, but that bourgeois thought created the Marxist approach.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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mi
THE DISPERSION OF RAGE IN THE ERA OF THE CENTER
Conservatives start with frustration, progressives end with frustration;
everybody
suffers from the age and can agree on that point.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Every day was no excitement and
a
birthday
was added, it was added on Monday, this made the memory
clear, this which was a speech showed the chair in the middle where
there was copper.
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Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
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It is
dreadful
to think that some people spend their whole decades at such
occupations.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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He calls for the abolition of the "national republics," to be replaced by purely administrative regions
subservient
to Moscow.
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Dugin - Alexander Dugin and New European Radical Right |
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His efforts were
powerless
to induce
Jalāl Khān, who was loth to forgo a kingdom, and naturally suş-
## p.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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If Zarathustra must first of all become the teacher of eternal return, then he cannot
commence
with this doctrine straightaway.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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The second
syllable
zop means "false.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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They
foresee, of course, that they will be on the same footing as genuine
philosophers; so long as their
exterior
is conformable, no one is
likely to make critical distinctions.
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Lucian |
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Bibb is
acquainted
with him.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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You sinned with me a
pleasant
sin:
Repent with me, for I repent.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I was that
Northern
tree and, in the South,
Amalia.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Their breath
Swept the foeman like a blade,
Though ten
thousand
men were paid
To the hungry purse of Death,
Though the field was wet with blood,
Still the bold defences stood,
Stood!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In every issue there is sure to be at least one poem so
interesting
as to justify the publication of that number of the magazine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Following them came the "skeptical Generation" of the fifties, which stands today at the helm, and
following
them, the generations of the seventies and
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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Further, turning away from all rupa--since any idea of rupa is absent in it--an drupya absorption is not capable of
producing
an avijnapti, which is rupa.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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I can
distinguish
naught.
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Friedrich Schiller |
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When to thy
greatest
bliss thou saidst farewell,
Thou didst depart alone: it stay'd with her,
Nor cares from those bright eyes, its home, to stir.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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to de su querido esposo, donde todos los dias era
vista de
aquellos
ancianos Jueces que haveis oido,
los quales no templando con la razon el apetito,
lo que ya la naturaleza havia hecho con los an?
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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He
merely added: 'You will know hereafter, darling, why I wish you to avoid
his house and family; now return to your old
employments
and amusements,
and think no more about them.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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Nor did his eyes less
longingly
behold
The girdle-belt, _ith nails of burmsh'd gold.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Scotland ; to which his own
interest
and animosity
enough disposed him, having an old and a sharp
controversy and contestation with the marquis of
Argyle, who had dispossessed him of a large terri-
tory there.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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You must guard,
you must earn more; the
inherited
bent of your
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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I have a crucifix myself,--
I have a crucifix Methinks 'twere fitting
The deed--the vow--the symbol of the deed--
And the deed's
register
should tally, father!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Para ser absolutamente
contemporáneo
hay que presuponer que ape nas hay algo todavía que presuponer.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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How like an epitaph it read, with the
terrible
sigh in the end-pause of each line.
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Samuel Beckett |
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90
that its recent whitewashing by a
prominent
Federal official of New York has been a source equally of amazement and speculation to these who followed the proceedings against it.
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Adams-Great-American-Fraud |
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A covered way was
constructed
and enormous mortars,
similar to that used at Chitor, were dragged up to the eminence
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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When then to persons devoted to the extremest offices the holy doctors preach the anointing oil of our Lord’s Incarnation, they ‘wash the feet with the butter’ of utterance, Moreover the feet are accustomed to be lacerated by the mere ruggedness of the way; whence it is altogether
difficult
at once to go a journey in the earthly actions of this life, and not sustain any wounds at all from the exertion of the journey.
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St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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182 ROSE AND EMILY J OR,
On entering the dining-room, they
found the
principal
table entirely filled,
and they were greatly relieved from the
embarrassment of mixing in such a mul-
titude, by being conducted to a side-table* .
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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They are
delighted
at how the capital is stirred, they take pity on the cries of those boys and girls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Have I offended so there is no hope
Here nor
hereafter?
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Longfellow |
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A ne^ scheme of
civilization
is forming, quite as strange to us, quite as exacting in the requirements it imposes on the individual, as the new technology-
Shall we find that we can adapt ourselves to this new order of civilization without liberal education?
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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When previously one practiced religion out of faith and compassion, at the present time family, body and possessions are the very best, religion is
similarly
practiced, and one travels onwards on the path to enlightenment.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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But you, 0 king,
preserve
the faith you gave,
If I, to save myself, your empire save.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with
libraries
to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.
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Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
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And, when this measure " on a
particular
morning had been placed upon two wild oxen, these animals passed through a bog, from Daire-moir.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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To avoid being
troubled by the weak and hopeless idlers, and those
whose
apparent
activity is merely neurotic, he looks
behind him and stays his course towards the goal
in order to breathe.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Aremarkablethingisthatnospecial
I2
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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''
Allusion
is here made to Ireland,
30 gee his Life, at the 7th of January, See, also, that of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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The educator will need to rethink his whole system of
educational
values.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Tully - Offices |
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This combination of matricide and good spirits, however satisfactory to
the determined classicist, will
probably
strike most intelligent readers
as a little curious, and even, if one may use the word at all in
connection with so powerful a play, undramatic.
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Euripides - Electra |
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" The
catastrophe flashed and smoldered, and Rodolphe in a magnifi-
cent
transport
of poetry had enshrined in lyric stanzas the last
words of the illustrious deceased.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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To all less keen than ye the sense were lost,
Nor other hearts could think soft nor speak loudly How dire the throng of sorrows that
enshroud
me.
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Pound-Ezra-Umbra-The-Early-Poems-of-Ezra-Pound |
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But for the nIght saw neIther sky nor ocean
And found shIp why~ how) by the Azores
And she was a bathxng beauty, MISS Arkansas or Texas And the man (of course) quasI anonymous
NeIther a placard for non-smokers or non-alcohol
Nor for the code of PeorIa,
Or one-eyed
HmchclIffe
and ElSIe
Blackeyed bItch that marrIed dear DenOls,
That flew out mto nothmgness
And her father was the son of one too
That got the annulment
140
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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I have other
questions
or need to report an error
Please email the diagnostic information to help2018 @ pglaf.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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1] But when Zeus was full-grown, he took Metis, daughter of Ocean, to help him, and she gave Cronus a drug to swallow,12 which forced him to disgorge first the stone and then the
children
whom he had swallowed, and with their aid Zeus waged the war against Cronus and the Titans.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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"
Who thus reflects ye may
as—picklock
know.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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Unless you prepare yourself with the
attitude
that your death could happen at any time, you cannot achieve the great aim that is surely needed at the time of death.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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The precise motives of those
responsible
for these
transactions are less easy to discern.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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Enough for the present: nor will I add one
word more, lest you should suspect that I have
plundered
the escrutoire
of the blear-eyed Crispinus.
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Horace - Works |
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Surely it would be
a foolish thing to make it matter of doubt to know which of these parts
are true; What was there in my first _perception_ that was
_distinct?
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Descartes - Meditations |
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DEATH IN YOUTH
I
(
NOTED once a fair Castilian rose,
All blushing with the bloom of life new-born,
Flaunt
lovingly
her beauty to the morn,
Whose whisper wooed the coy bud to unclose
Her dewy petals to his kiss.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
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Whether that which truly exists was actually
identical
with Number or
Numbers, or whether it was something different from Number, but had a
certain relation to Number; whether if there were such a relation, this
was merely a relation of analogy or of conformability, or whether
Number were something actually embodied in that which truly
exists--these were speculative questions which were variously answered
by various teachers, and which probably interested the later more than
the earlier leaders of the school.
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A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. Marshall |
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"
In Fichte's literary correspondence while at Zurich we
find the first intimations of his
departure
from the system
of Kant, and his plan of a complete and comprehensive
philosophy.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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Ahmadābād
: Băi Harir's masjid at Asarwa View
from East.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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Lord LUlgl Gonzaga, to be gIven Casa
Glustmlan
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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And, in his "
Anointing
Woman " (but this play is attributed to Alexis also), he says : —
But if you make our shop notorious,
I swear by Ceres, best of goddesses,
That I will empt the biggest ladle o'er you, Filling it with hot water from the kettle ;
And if I fail, may I ne'er drink free water more.
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Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'tis a gala night
Within the
lonesome
latter years!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I love my life's dark hours
In which my senses quicken and grow deep,
While, as from faint incense of faded flowers
Or letters old, I
magically
steep
Myself in days gone by: again I give
Myself unto the past:--again I live.
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Rilke - Poems |
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much damage was
committed
between them.
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Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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Embalming
in
catacombs, mummies the same idea.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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When his
colleagues
threatened to bring him to trial for his conduct, he showed them the Arcadians, Messenians, Argives and other Peloponnesians.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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”
To this Mary very gravely replied, “Far be it from me, my dear sister,
to depreciate such
pleasures!
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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